I from Colorado, and currently work in End User support for DHS.... been using Ubuntu Linux off and on since 2005, with the occasion of testing and playing with various Live CD's ( PC Linux, DSL, Fedora, Knoppix, Puppy, PLHAK, and the list goes on). Linux has seemed to be a love/hate thing with me... I can install it and use it for a few months then I always have some stupid reason to go back to windows. I still love my Windows 7 PC for gaming, but that soon may change with the support of STEAM on the way!....

Welcome aboard! Here's an Idea if you feel froggie, why not compress a swapfile on your ram with the zram module in the kernel. It will still go to your swap partition as needed but it sometime helps make things a bit snappier. Have a look and see what you think http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/150355/#p150355

wyrdoak wrote:Welcome aboard! Here's an Idea if you feel froggie, why not compress a swapfile on your ram with the zram module in the kernel. It will still go to your swap partition as needed but it sometime helps make things a bit snappier. Have a look and see what you think http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/150355/#p150355

I'm using it on my netbook with Xfce

Oh awesome!... Never heard of it, but it does look interesting... I might have to take this for a spin....

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